3 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Own backend solutions from understanding partner needs through design, implementation, testing, and production operation.
- Design and maintain scalable services using Java and Spring Boot within a microservices architecture.
- Lead development efforts involving event-driven architectures and Kafka or similar messaging systems.
- Architect, design, and optimize relational databases such as PostgreSQL for performance and scalability.
- Collaborate across teams on partner integrations and expansion of the Wise payment platform.
- Strengthen testing and observability, diagnose production issues, and improve service dependability.
- Participate in code reviews, promote sound coding practices, share domain knowledge, and mentor junior engineers.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience building or substantially contributing to large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong backend engineering experience with relational databases, event-driven systems, and an object-oriented programming language.
- Ability to understand customer problems, explain why solutions matter, and use product outcomes to assess impact.
- Ability to work autonomously, take ownership, make progress through ambiguity, and involve relevant experts.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills across teams.
- Curiosity about financial products and willingness to learn how partners use the services.
- Additional useful experience includes Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL, payments, fintech, funding, settlement, foreign exchange, and using product metrics and data to understand customer behavior.
Benefits
- Starting salary of £111,000–£145,000 plus RSUs.
- Wise benefits package.
- International, diverse, equitable, and inclusive working environment.
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About Wise
Wise builds a cross-border payments and multi-currency account used by individuals and businesses to send, receive, hold, and spend money in 40+ currencies. Revenue comes from transfer and account fees, card interchange, and enterprise partnerships via Wise Platform, which lets banks and large companies embed its international payments. Founded in 2011 as TransferWise, Wise is a London-headquartered public company.